Eric has been working at IBM for 31 years and in the IBM Cloud division since 2014. He has worked on service brokers, service proxy and discovery, Docker, Kafka, image security, and most recently Istio. He is a co-lead of the Istio Test and Release Work Group as well as a maintainer in the Documentation Work Group. He was a Release Manger for Istio 1.4. When he has a few moments away from the computer, he flies R/C aircraft and enjoys ham radio.